NASA Earth photo book: NASA has just released 168 pages of stunning images showing the atmosphere, water, land, ice and snow from the previsual of a satellite. The interactive online version is available for free to everyone, while if you want to add the book to your personal library it will cost you $53.
The book is called Earth.
If you think the printed version of the project is meaningless to you, the interactive online version is available in the NAS Earth ObservatoryA. And if you must definitely get the book, there are free versions of PDF, MOBI (Kindle), and ePub.
The interactive NASA Earth photo book allows visitors to click on photos that are accompanied by descriptions and give a frame to the abstract images.
Click on the category of ice and snow, for example, and you will be presented with something that looks like a Rorschach inkblot test. The text on the left explains that the picture taken by the Earth Observing-1 satellite in 2010, it is the Mertz Glacier flowing between the East Antarctic Icebergs into the Southern Ocean.
If you want to know more about a photo, you will find a link to the “full story” where you will find additional references.
If you are wondering why NASA has such a project that clearly took a lot work to be created, the organization hopes that Earth will "inspire others to explore, understand and appreciate the planet we call home".
The decision to offer free editions is an effort to reach out to those seeking solutions to important global issues such as changing freshwater availability, food better safety and human health.
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